Aerial photographs; Industry; Clocks & watches; Colgate Company
This aerial view of southern Indiana catches the very edge of the Ohio River and the area around the Colgate & Co. plant in Clarksville. Even from the air the company's signs and large clock are visible. Besides the name of the company the...
Agricultural machinery & implements; Men; People; Hay
Several men and boys work in a hay field in Boyle County, Kentucky. They are using pitchforks to feed hay into a machine which bundles the hay into rectangular blocks. Some of the men are in shirt sleeves and long pants while others wear overalls....
The exterior of Willow Terrace Apartments at 1412 Willow Avenue, Louisville, Kentucky, has plateaued steps and two large wings coming off a set-back central wing. Notice that very few of the apartments include balconies.
Address: 1412 Willow Avenue, Louisville, Kentucky. Designed by the Joseph & Joseph architecture firm, this luxury apartment building consists of a brick building with two symmetrical wings. A car is parked by the long sidewalk leading up to the...
Automobile industry; Automobiles; Ford Motor Company; Men; Business people
Last Model T Ford (motor number 14,987,899) leaves the assembly line at Ford plant on Southwestern Parkway in Louisville, Kentucky on July 3, 1927. Posing with auto, from left to right: Keith Denham, R.G. Potter, Carlton Fry, Elbert J. Lucas (Ford...
Automobiles; Advertising; Buildings; Stores & shops; Levy Brothers (Firm); Men
Louisville Booster automobile photographed in front of Levy Bros. on Third and Market Streets, Louisville, Kentucky, 1927. Advertised on side of car: "Louisville, Premier Industrial Location of America; Population Today, 347,774; 1920,...
Joe Lazarus, Louisville attorney, stands with one leg on the running board of a 1927 Packard sedan, holding open the car's passenger door. The car is parked outside a building that appears to be the main branch of the Louisville Free Public...
A black car is parked at a curve in the road at Cherokee Park in Louisville, Kentucky. Stark trees and snow covered roads surround a stone bridge over a creek. At the top of a nearby hill is a large building.
A branch of the First National Bank at 2223 Bardstown Road, Louisville, Kentucky, is shown. The brick building has large windows and an entryway built on a corner of the building. Lettering in the front window reads, "Bardstown Road Branch,...
Banks; Women; Citizens Union Bank (Louisville, Ky.); Clerks
Address: 4th & Broadway. Women, identified left to right as Mrs. Francis Hogue (Becky Yeager), Lorraine Crawford (Mrs. M. G. Whitley), Mrs. Winthop Allen (Louis A Starks), Mrs. Chas Hill (Elanor Gordon), Mary Ferris Lindenberger, and Miss Thoda...
Billboards, buildings, and automobiles are shown at the southwestern corner of Broadway and Second Street in Louisville, Kentucky. The left billboard advertises, "Armour's 'Star' Bacon / Slices of real." The middle one reads, "Now 14...
Biplanes; Air shows; Aeronautics; Air pilots; Crosley Radio Corporation
Embry-Riddle Corporation Wright Whirlwind-powered WACO biplane, adorned with Crosley Radio logo. Pilot John Paul Riddle, seated in plane, and Harry Serwin, amongst crowd wearing a pilot's helmet and goggles, delivering a new Crosley radio, sometime...
Boat & ship industry; Howard Ship Yards and Dock Company
Steel hull of the MISSISSIPPI (Way #3977) on grade at Howard Shipyard. This hull (185 ft. x 38 ft. x 7.2 ft.) was built for the stern wheel inspection boat MISSISSIPPI in 1927. Owned by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, the hull was towed to...
On the southeast corner of Broadway and First Street in Louisville, Kentucky stands the Frank Aufenkamp Delicatessen. A sign painted on the side of the building indicates groceries, bakery goods, lunches, and fruit are also sold. To the left is a...
Address: 720 S. Brook Street, Louisville, Kentucky. A brick wall with a scalloped top encloses a work site where construction debris litters an open area near a partially-constructed building. A wooden scaffold is set up along the building. The...
Located at the northwest corner of Third Street and Broadway in Louisville, Kentucky is the construction site of the Breslin Building. Supplies of lumber are stacked around an excavated area surrounded by wood walls. Groups of men in work clothes...
Buildings; Apartments; Building construction; Dartmouth Apartments (Louisville, Ky.)
Address: 1416 Willow Ave. Between 1912 and 1930, 165 apartment buildings were constructed in Louisville. During this period, Joseph & Joseph built three luxury apartment buildings near Cherokee Park which are regarded as cultural landmarks: The...
Theodore Ahrens Trade School, 546 South Third Street, Louisville, Kentucky. Three story brick building with domed entrance labeled above, "Theodore Ahrens Trade School, AD 1925." The top edge of the buildings is carved with knots. A car...
